Shameless - The Complete First Season
starring: James McAvoy
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Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0794051288721
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: BBC Warner
Manufacturer: BBC Warner
Number Of Discs: 2
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: BBC Warner
Region Code: 1
Release Date: April 24, 2007
Running Time: 342 minutes
Sales Rank: 8415
Studio: BBC Warner
Theatrical Release Date: 2006
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Editorial Review:
Description:
Meet the Gallaghers. Mum went AWOL years ago, Dad stayed at home with the six children only to hit the bottle ... and sometimes the kids... Blisteringly funny, offbeat drama following the rollercoaster lives and loves of an anarchic family from Manchester. The real head of the family is big sister Fiona, who looks after Carl, Debbie and baby Liam. She is occasionally helped, more often hindered, by streetwise 'Lip' and the actively gay, but very private, Ian. Welcome to the hectic world of sexual adventures, triumphs, love, scams and a fair bit of crime on a rough Manchester housing estate, where wheel-less cars are the norm and the moving ones are stolen.
DVD Features:
Biographies:Meet the Cast
Interviews:An Interview with Creator Paul Abbott
Amazon.com:
This 'top (effen) notch' BBC series is set in a Manchester, England, public-housing project where the Gallagher clan gets by with a little help from their friends and each other. They certainly can't count on Frank (David Threfall), their on-the-dole dad, whose time around the house is mostly spent drunkenly passed out on the floor. Mom abandoned them years before. That leaves Fiona (Anne-Marie Duff), the eldest daughter, to be surrogate parent and help make the best of their hardscrabble lives in a place that, Frank observes, will never be mistaken for the Garden of Eden. The seven episodes that comprise the first series are a riot of family dysfunction. Cheeky oldest brother Lip (Jody Latham) discovers his younger sibling, Ian (Gerard Kearns), is gay and is having an affair with the local Muslin grocer. He enlists his girlfriend, Karen (Rebecca Atkinson), to initiate Ian (to no avail). Karen's agoraphobic mother, Sheila (Maggie O'Neill) is married to a religious fanatic, who abandons them after he discovers his daughter's sinful ways, opening the door for Frank to move in (and juggle clandestine affairs with both mother and daughter). Meanwhile, Fiona meets Steve (James McAvoy), a nice guy and prosperous car salesman (too bad the cars are stolen).
Lending the Gallaghers a hand is neighbor Veronica (Maxine Peake), fiercely loyal and protective and a ferocious force of nature. One of her sidelights is ironing topless for the benefit of horny Internet viewers. Frank says it best when he asks at one point, 'Is anyone around here normal?' Written by Paul Abbott, Shameless has the same gritty setting and generous spirit as Mike Leigh's Life Is Sweet. Prodigious use of the F-word and some fleeting full-frontal nudity notwithstanding, Shameless, would feel at home on American basic cable. The optional subtitles are recommended to make better sense of the thick accents and slang. --Donald Liebenson
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- British comedy at it's finestThis video is amazing. I bought this video because the humour is raw and exciting. I lived in the ... Read More
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- Great ShowThis is one of the most true to life TV programmes I have seen in a long time.
Great writing ... Read More
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- Freakin' HilariousThis is best comedy series I've seen. S'got drama too, and a lot of love between the Gallaghers and friends. ... Read More
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- Shameless is hilarious!Shameless is one of the funniest shows I have ever seen! I have been really frustrated that season 2 has not ... Read More
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- Very funnyHilarious.....If you appreciate British humor, this is for you. I'm just waiting for the rest to come out for ... Read More
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